Ty Lawson joined Avs fans for Game 1 at the Pepsi Center on Thursday.(Courtesy of @DenverNuggets[1])

The Nuggets don’t get a postseason this year, but that didn’t keep a couple of them from staying at the Pepsi Center late on Thursday for the playoffs — the NHL playoffs, that is. Ty Lawson and Danilo Gallinari got front-row seats to the Avalanche’s thrilling Game 1 victory against the Wild, becoming, for a night, one of the thousands of screaming hockey fans in Denver. And there’s video and photo evidence: